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National Solo Album Month 2009 Challenge ... met and completed!

Posted by Dennis Moser on November 30, 2009 at 4:16am

So for the past few years, I've taken to amusing myself with this thing called the "National Solo Album Month" challenge. The goal is the act itself: complete an "album" of at least 29+ minutes in length completely within the month of November. No prizes or awards, just the recognition in completion.This year was a slightly different slant for me: This past Spring, I traveled to Croatia for the first time, visiting Dubrovnik and Zadar (I was presenting an academic conference that was being held in both cities, so I didn't see too much more than that). I had taken a field recorder because 1. I wanted to record some of the speakers and 2. I had discovered something about Zadar before I ever submitted my paper proposal and, when the paper was accepted, I took it as a sign that I MUST record this: The Sea Organ at Zadar. A quick search will turn up a number of hits, including some videos. One of ones I found that had me excited before leaving was here ... http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9359/1/Nikola-Baiae-author-of-the-Zadar-Sea-Organ.htmlI came back with about 8 hours of stereo audio of all kinds of sounds, songs, noises, street sounds ... you name it. And I had made a number of new friends ...So this year's NaSoAlMo, as we short-hand it, is dedicated to all of them and to My Muse, who was not able to travel with me, but was with always with me ...http://soundcloud.com/usrsbin/sets... I hope you enjoy it ...~~ Dennis

Three Preview Tracks from 'Levels'

Posted by Steve Orchard on November 29, 2009 at 1:54pm

To all my new friends that I have met here this year.Here are three new preview tracks from my soon to be released album 'Levels'I hope you enjoy.Kind RegardsSteveO

Prog Fans

Posted by Melodic Revolution Records on November 28, 2009 at 12:16am

Melodic Revolution Records is proud to release its first Holiday CD A Very Progressive Christmas.A Very Progressive Christmas Vol. 1 is a holiday series of songs that will stir emotions and inspire us all. Featuring some of the finest independent and international prog bands performing music with a progressive holiday flair. This CD is an eclectic mix of traditional classic holiday music such as: We Three Kings by Kurt Tischer of Temple 8; thematic music by Legend (Holy King) and prog metalers Cirrha Nniva (Golan Heights) which features a guest appearance by Yuval Kramer from the Israeli band Amaseffer as well as other interpretations of the holiday season in true prog fashion.8 ► IndonesiaRICK ANDREWS ► USAHENNY ARVE & FRIENDS ► GermanyTOMMIE BREWSTER ► New ZealandCIRRHA NIVA ► NetherlandsGIANLUCA GHINI ► ItalyGRAVITY TREE ► USALEGEND ► United KingdomMUSAPHONIC ► USAANDREW ROUSSAK (Dorian Opera) ► Germany / RussiaDON SCHIFF (Rocket Scientists) ► USAKURT TISCHER (Temple 8) ► USA

Northern Lights

Posted by haiku on November 27, 2009 at 3:00pm

Visit-Norway, the Norwegian Tourist Organization is using the new haiku album flowin their brand new campaign.You can read about this fantastic phenomenon and watch beautiful pictures and even create your own Northern Lights.

Hi there, I'm new, so lets talk about me for a bit, shall we?

Posted by Braindouche! on November 25, 2009 at 4:30am

So, hi everyone. My name is Meredith, and I go by Braindouche! (including the exclamation point, it's very important) most everywhere on the net. I've run a podcast for the past two and a half years, also called Braindouche!, and I'm currently locked in mortal combat with my hundredth episode. I call it a "free form audio arts"' podcast, because nothing else fits, either.I also design jewelry, design websites and do graphics, talk on twitter, and other things too.Anyway, so, for the longest time I've been making very dark industrial noisy music, toying around with harsh electronica genres, producing some abysmally bad trance, and life was good. Over the past couple of months, though, I've totally lightened up. My music has very suddenly gotten light and happy and, dare I say it, inspirational. It's still ambient and electronic and abstract, but It went from stuff like this:

Powertools by Braindouche!which I love like puppies and sunshine, to stuff like this:

Vistas 1 by Braindouche!which is a snapshot of a track i'm working on right now.I'm a big believer in just going with it, so I'm here as part of my search to find musical communities that are more utopian than dystopian, and I'm looking forward to talking with listeners and especially musicians who discovered the light side of the force before I did.So, hi! Nice to meet you all!

Free New Age Piano Lesson for Your Website or Newsletter List!

Posted by Edward Weiss on November 15, 2009 at 9:02pm

Hello fellow New Age Music fans,My name is Edward Weiss. I teach adults how to play New Age piano - online. And I'd like to offer your visitors and/or newsletter subscribers a free New Age piano lesson. It's called "Reflections in Water" and shows you how to use a few simple chords to create a beautiful, reflective mood. No experience required!Here's some text you can use to promote this to your visitors/readers:Free New Age Piano Lesson!"Reflections in Water" Create your own beautifulmusic right away. Visit http://www.newagepianolessons.comnow to claim your free lesson!If you're audience is into New Age piano, they will love this lesson!Sincerely,Edward WeissQuiescence MusicP.S. Of course, feel free to promote this to your list anyway you want.

Free New Age Piano Lesson for Your Website or Newsletter List!

Posted by Edward Weiss on November 15, 2009 at 9:02pm

Hello fellow New Age Music fans,My name is Edward Weiss. I teach adults how to play New Age piano - online. And I'd like to offer your visitors and/or newsletter subscribers a free New Age piano lesson. It's called "Reflections in Water" and shows you how to use a few simple chords to create a beautiful, reflective mood. No experience required!Here's some text you can use to promote this to your visitors/readers:Free New Age Piano Lesson!"Reflections in Water" Create your own beautifulmusic right away. Visit http://www.newagepianolessons.comnow to claim your free lesson!If you're audience is into New Age piano, they will love this lesson!Sincerely,Edward WeissQuiescence MusicP.S. Of course, feel free to promote this to your list anyway you want.

Christmas Songs for airplay

Posted by NewAge Radio on November 14, 2009 at 11:00am

Ho Ho Ho :-)Steve Orchard had the idea to post christmas & winter songs here in the forum and this is great !!my idea is: please send me your christmas/winter songs for airplay on NewAge Radioif i have enough songs, i create a special christmas channel for it and start it 4 weeks before christmas !!and also i play the songs in my regular New Age Music channel ...so, please let me know what you think about and start mailing me your christmas songs ;-)musicscout@gmx.de is the adress where you can send your musicthanks for your supporthave a great timeErich

Christmas Is Coming!!

Posted by Steve Orchard on November 13, 2009 at 10:17pm

I would like to be the first to add a Christmas Song to the forum.I know it's TERRIBLY early but perhaps other friends & members can add a track & by Christmas we will have a whole albums worth???It's a thought isn't it? Whatever your beliefs & faiths?This is Julie, my wife, & I messing about in the studio.God BlessSteve Orchard

First Live Performance

Posted by Bill Wren on November 13, 2009 at 10:06pm

HEY ALL MY FRIENDS FANS AND FAMILYI'm posting the first live video of my music. The song is Coming Home. Please comment and let me know if you think we ought to go forward and perform my music live. Please only true feeling and opinions. Bill http://www.vimeo.com/7594235

"In The Clouds" Review by R J Lannan Zone Music Reporter

Posted by Michele Ippolito on November 10, 2009 at 8:50pm

Check out R J Lannan's review of "In The Clouds"

Suddenly A Great Silence

Posted by G on November 9, 2009 at 6:41pm

Forgive me father, it has been 5 months since my last blog post.It is a bit hard to keep an audience when you disappear. But you know, blogging does not come easily to everyone. Musicians tend to speak with notes rather than words. Songwriters are excluded of course but I know many a songwriter that can’t write a paragraph. Hooks yes, prose no.So for those of you who were actually following my exploits in trying to put together a new CD I apologize. Life seems to come at you from so many angles that things get lost. Of course, life doesn’t come at you. You are life so it really comes from you and with you. But that is what it feels like. I guess the real feeling is being out of control.I am not sure we are ever really in control. We certainly want to believe we are. It males us feel safe to think that we con control events. But how much control do you really have? Most things happen on their own. Like planets orbiting or hair growing it all seems to happen with zero input from me.This is as true for creating a CD as it is for digesting food. I think I am controlling the process and then it all starts heading in a direction that seems quite wild and unpredictable. For example, I was certain that this album would be a mixture of solo piano music with ambient New Age floating kind of music. Some with piano some not.Well the powers that be decided otherwise. All the solo pieces seemed to beg for my attention. New ones appeared that seemed to be right for the album. Unfinished pieces finished themselves. And I found a studio nearby to do the mixing, with a very gifted engineer and the two of us came up with a process that had us mixing 15 songs in about 12 hours.It became clear that this album will be nothing but solo piano and I have nothing to say about it. I really thought it would be otherwise but then there I was with 15 piano pieces completed, mixed and ready to go. My original plan of 7 piano pieces and then more ambient and atmospheric material just vaporized. Then I saw where the state of everything was and recognized that I wasn’t really controlling this process, I was just participating in it. And it was apparent that going with the solo piano pieces was not only the right choice, it was the inevitable one. It was never really a choice at all.So there it is. The album has taken its final shape. Emptiness Dances, 15 pieces for solo piano. You can preview it here if you like http://gpwalsh.com/latest-releases.php. Hopefully it will not be 5 months before my next post. But since I don’t really have that much to say about it I will only say that that is my intent. We will see.

Moments to Reality

Posted by Badboyralphy on November 9, 2009 at 4:30am

The Moments to RealityThis poem I shall dedicate to a stranger who passed away a few days back. He was a member of https://newagemusik.ning.com/. For this stranger I did not know, or even ever meet. I only know of him from what I have read; such warm remarks for this person they called Jim Brenholts. A message posted by his brother Tom, both inspired this poem and dripped a tear from my heart. He said “It is hard now; everyone's cyber life is just as large and just as real as their personal life” and this is so true.

Days filled with dreamsthat transpire into wishes,wishes become momentsmoments to reality.In every whisperis a message of hope,every hope a crystal prayer,prayers become moments,moments to reality.Our wealth becomes goldthat we accumulatethroughout our days,each piece carefully collected,polished to a shine,a shine given a name,a name becomes moments,moments to reality.Suddenly life changescauses moments to alter,alter in the breeze,for the most painful worry about dyingis what we leave behind;for your can’t take your treasuresas much as we try…butYour Gold is your friends,each shared something with you,something special,a moment engraved into timeas it encapsulates your journeyalthough,tears have fallen,hearts feel heavy with each awaiting beat,drifting towards moments to realityAt-last, you know one thing is for certaineach vein of goldhas powered the soul,which generated this eternal lightbrilliantly it shinesfrom the heavens above,guiding a path along the moments you sharedso each golden friend can hold youin their heart once more...

Music Artist of the Year

Posted by J.C. High Eagle on November 6, 2009 at 8:15am

I want to thank all those on this site who voted and rated me on the Jimmy Lawson worldwide radio station. I am pleased to announce that I won the distinction of Music Artist of the Year. And to those who did not vote for me, thank you for thinking of me . . . J.C. High Eagle

Passarinho on Omstream

Posted by Massimo Kyo Di Nocera on November 5, 2009 at 5:00pm

Hi Friends, I'm happy to share with you the song Passarinho on OmStream this week in Free Download. Enjoy it!The link is http://omstream.com/pages/your-selection.php?album_id=645

Namaste'

CROSS PROMOTING OUR MEMBERS

Posted by Suzanne Doucet on November 4, 2009 at 12:19am

Hello All Amberfern came up with a great idea to start cross promoting each other on iTunes. You swap reviews with your favorite artists. You can apply the same concept of course to Amazon, CD Baby etc. That's up to you and your supportive partner. I would like to add another idea. Let's miniblog about eachother as well on Twitter. Choose your favorite artists contact them and swap miniblogs - ideally one every day for each artist you support and vice versa. If you have any other ideas how we can support eachother - please let us all know! Suzanne

This adventure with music and such great artist ,and talent

Posted by alicia sotelo on November 3, 2009 at 9:52am

WOW ALL I NEED ,...........IS A Man to cuddle with ,Dance with................ Maybe just see me dance to the pleasure of it all .............L.O.L

demo trak uploaded

Posted by Mark Hamilton on November 1, 2009 at 3:40am

ok...the trak i uploaded is a very rough demo recorded back in march....soundforge was just running in the background, while the good ol' ARP 2600 and the CS-80 were acting up on me...well..kinda...lol....don't ask me how this trak made it this far in the year, because i don't have a clue. it probably won't wind up on any release, so it's going to be stuck in the archives for a while.

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